Dr Yong-Guang Zheng
Yong-Guang Zheng is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics since 2024.
He is working on the quantum simulation of many-body quantum dynamics with ultracold atoms trapped in optical lattices. Specifically, he and his college in the lab utilize lasers to chill the atoms down to less than 1-millionth degree above the absolute zero temperature and load those particles to an eight-fold optical quasicrystal, which supports various exotic phases of matter.
Prior to University of Cambridge, Yong-Guang did his first post-doctoral study at Hefei National Laboratory and University of Science and Technology of China, where he obtained a PhD degree on the quantum information and quantum physics in 2022. In the ultracold atoms lab he has built a site-resolved quantum gas microscope featuring bichromatic spin-dependent superlattices. He worked on detecting the counterflow superfluidity in a two-component Mott insulator and applying the quantum computational advantage to simulating the many-body dynamics of a driven-thermalized system. During the visit to the Physics Institute of Heidelberg University for three months, he was studying the quantum critical behaviours of a one-dimensional Bose gas in the quantum optics lab.
For the undergraduate study, he went to Tianjin University and majored in applied physics. He was also a member of the racing car team and competed in the Formula Student China 2010.
Select publications
- YGZ, A. Luo, Y.-C. Shen, M.-G. He, Z.-H. Zhu, Y. Liu,W.-Y. Zhang, H. Sun, Y. Deng, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan., “Counterflow superfluidity in a two-component Mott insulator,” arXiv:2403.03479, accepted by Nature Physics,
- A. Luo∗, YGZ∗, W.-Y. Zhang, M.-G. He, Y.-C. Shen, Z.-H. Zhu, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan., “Microscopic study on superexchange dynamics of composite spin-1 bosons,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 133, p. 043 401, 2024.
- W.-Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, Y. Cheng, M.-G. He, H.-Y. Wang, T.-Y. Wang, Z.-H. Zhu, G.-X. Su, Z.-Y. Zhou, YGZ, H. Sun, B. Yang, P. Hauke, W. Zheng, J. C. Halimeh, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan, “Observation of microscopic confinement dynamics by a tunable topological θ-angle,” arXiv:2306.11794, accepted by Nature Physics,
- W.-Y. Zhang, M.-G. He, H. Sun, YGZ, Y. Liu, A. Luo, H.-Y. Wang, Z.-H. Zhu, P.-Y. Qiu, Y.-C. Shen, X.-K. Wang, W. Lin, S.-T. Yu, B.-C. Li, B. Xiao, M.-D. Li, Y.-M. Yang, X. Jiang, H.-N. Dai, Y. Zhou, X. Ma, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan, “Scalable multipartite entanglement created by spin exchange in an optical lattice,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, p. 073 401, 2023.
- H.-Y. Wang, W.-Y. Zhang, Z. Yao, Y. Liu, Z.-H. Zhu, YGZ, X.-K. Wang, H. Zhai, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan, “Interrelated thermalization and quantum criticality in a lattice gauge simulator,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, p. 050 401, 2023.
- YGZ, W.-Y. Zhang, Y.-C. Shen, A. Luo, Y. Liu, M.-G. He, H.-R. Zhang, W. Lin, H.-Y. Wang, Z.-H. Zhu, M.-C. Chen, C.-Y. Lu, S. Thanasilp, D. G. Angelakis, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan, “Efficiently extracting multi-point correlations of a Floquet thermalized system,” arXiv:2210.08556
- YGZ, Z.-H. Zhu, Y. Liu, W.-Y. Zhang, H.-Y. Wang, S.-T. Yu, A. Luo, H. Sun, Z.-S. Yuan, and J.-W. Pan, “Robust site-resolved addressing via dynamically tracking the phase of optical lattices,” Optics Letters, vol. 47, p. 4239, 2022.
- YGZ, L. Jiang, Z.-H. Zhu, W.-Y. Zhang, Z.-Y. Zhou, B. Xiao, and Z.-S. Yuan, “A compact gain-enhanced microwave helical antenna for 87Rb atomic experiments,” Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 93, p. 064 701, 2022.
Select awards
- 2023 CPSF Exceptional Fellowship, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
- 2023 CPS-Huawei MindSpore Quantum Fellowship, Chinese Physics Society & Huawei.
- 2015 Graduate Scholarship of Study, First Prize, University of Science and Technology of China.
- 2013 Excellent Graduated Student Prize, Tianjin University.
Further links
Group page: https://www.manybody.phy.cam.ac.uk/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-7340
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dGnMCqUAAAAJ&hl=en
